Marcus Schrenker

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It's about Marcus Schrenker, an Indianapolis-area financial manager who allegedly faked his death with an airplane crash in Florida to escape investigation for securities violations and recently filed divorce papers from his wife.

NOBLESVILLE, Ind. (AP) - The missing pilot, Marcus Schrenker, has been found in Quincy, Florida, at a campsite.
Investigators say he had slit his wrists.
Earlier Tuesday, a judge ordered the arrest of Indiana pilot, Marcus Schrenker, on financial fraud [...]

In December, Marcus Schrenker, a money manager and sometime stunt pilot, penned a letter that read, in part: "It needs to be known that I am financially insolvent… I am intending on filing bankruptcy in 2009 should my financial conditions continue to deteriorate.
They did.

As the Indiana investment adviser grew more desperate to escape mounting financial difficulties and legal issues stemming from accusations of investor fraud, he reportedly hatched a plan that was splashed all over national television as it unfolded.
According to news reports, he staged a Hollywood-style getaway from his rapidly deteriorating life, complete with a fake mid-air mayday call, a parachute jump over Alabama, and a faked death from a plane he put on autopilot that crashed in a swamp near a residential area in the Florida Panhandle.
Schrenker then raced away on a carefully pre-stashed motorcycle, before being discovered by federal marshals just after he had slashed his wrists at a Florida campsite.
He recently pleaded not guilty in federal court to charges that he willfully destroyed an aircraft and made a fake distress call.

Earlier this week, Marcus Schrenker, an Indiana investment adviser suspected of bilking investors, was taken into custody by police in Florida, after allegedly attempting to fake his death in a plane crash.